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IT infrastructure must meet enterprise needs for effective service delivery while also providing value for money. This is a critical undertaking. Massive data growth, increased complexity of hybrid cloud environments, and emphasis on digital-first strategies are just some of the challenges. This requires an advanced approach to how infrastructure is configured and controlled — infrastructure management.

In this Livestream conversation, I spoke with John Alves from CyberOne Security about the struggles teams face in modernizing a SIEM, controlling costs, and extracting optimal value from their systems. We delve into the issues around single system-of-analysis solutions that attempt to solve detection and analytics use cases within the same tool.

Depending on where you are on your journey with microservices, you may have noticed visibility into the system can be a bit tricky at times. Well, there’s good news. Not knowing what’s going on in the system is a solvable problem. One of the first things you can do is get your logs in order. And one of the best ways of doing so is aggregating your logs into a single logging service.

The ability to swiftly resolve incidents is central to SREs responsible for a service's reliability and its users' satisfaction. Mezmo has recognized this need and, at Kubecon, unveiled an innovative solution: Mezmo Responsive Pipelines. Responsive Pipelines enable users to pre-configure a Pipeline to respond automatically in the case of an incident.

If you missed KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, or you were there and spent more time in the “hallway tracks,” you may have missed some of the big news that came out of the show. We covered the big happenings in the open source cloud native and observability realm in the latest episode of OpenObservability Talks!

I went to my first Kubecon ever this last week. If you’re not familiar with Kubecon, it is a convention that is around Kubernetes, a Cloud Native Community Foundation (CNCF) open source project. With this being my first Kubecon ever, it was an adventure all around building community, education, kindness, and of course, a love for Kubernetes technology.

How many software pipelines are required to keep your business running? How many of those build, test, release, or deploy code? The most likely answer here is “I don’t know…” followed by a set of mental gymnastics to try and determine a rough number that is most likely incorrect.

Cloud platforms like Render have made developers’ lives easier by handling many of the underlying infrastructure concerns. You can deploy web services, spin up databases, and schedule cron jobs without ever setting up a server manually. However, this convenience comes with a challenge: Accessing logs across these disparate services takes time and effort. To overcome this challenge, many developers centralize their logs with a log management service.